500 MPRE P QUESTIONS FOR 2019

500 MPRE

PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR 2019

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PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

COURSE SUPPLEMENT

Professor Drury Stevenson

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? 2018 Drury D. Stevenson

Cover photo: Stone frieze of law professor lecturing while his students sleep, from the main

entrance of the Yale Law School. Photo ? Rena Tobey, used by permission.

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Note for law students:

These 500 sample questions have the same format and style as the questions

on the current Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE). The

multiple-choice format also provides a useful way to test students¡¯ knowledge

of each provision or clause in each of the Model Rules, as well as the drafters¡¯

official Comments (which the MPRE tests along with the Model Rules

themselves). No other MPRE practice book currently on the market has as

many sample questions, or as broad coverage, as this book.

The practice questions are also extremely useful in mastering the material

covered in every Professional Responsibility/Legal Ethics course, which is a

required course at every American law school.

The arrangement of topics in this book follows the order of how heavily the

MPRE tests each Rule. The bar examiners publish useful information on their

website, , including a list of all topics

tested, and how heavily the exam tests each separate topic:

. This book

follows that order, but most Professional Responsibility courses do not, but

these practice questions will still give students proficiency in the material

covered throughout the course, in preparation for their final exam.

This compendium of questions is a supplement to the author¡¯s recentlypublished Glannon Guide to Professional Responsibility (2nd ed.). The

Glannon Guide provides detailed explanations for each of its questions (more

than 220 questions), as well as a helpful introduction to each topic. This book

provides only an answer key and a few citations to Model Rule subsections,

the Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers, ethics opinions, and

court cases, but it has more questions. In addition, this book devotes special

attention to topics covered less thoroughly in the Glannon Guide and other

law school courses materials, such as attorney-client privilege and legal

malpractice. For best results, use the two books together.

¡°Rule¡± in the hints after the questions refers to the applicable provision of the ABA

Model Rules of Professional Conduct (2018), the primary basis for the MPRE.

¡°Restatement¡± in this book refers to the American Law Institute¡¯s RESTATEMENT

OF THE LAW (THIRD) - THE LAW GOVERNING LAWYERS. Many of the questions

target from illustrations in the Restatement, examples in the MRPC Comment, or

recent cases.

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Table of Contents

PART I ¨C HEAVILY TESTED SUBJECTS

Conflicts of interest (12¨C18% MPRE) . . . 9

The Client-Lawyer Relationship (10¨C16% MPRE) . . . 45

Litigation & Other Forms of Advocacy (6¨C12% MPRE) . . . 70

Competence, Diligence, Malpractice, & Other Civil Liability

(6¨C12% MPRE) . . . 96

PART II ¨C LIGHTLY TESTED SUBJECTS

Client Confidentiality & Privilege (6¨C12% MPRE) . . . 111

Regulation of the Legal Profession (6¨C12% MPRE) . . . 134

Communications About Legal Services (4¨C10% MPRE) . . . 167

Different Roles of the Lawyer (4¨C10% MPRE) . . . 175

Transactions and Communications with Persons Other Than Clients (2¨C8%

MPRE) . . . 179

Safekeeping Funds and Other Property (2¨C8% MPRE) . . . 189

Code of Judicial Conduct (2¨C8%) . . . 192

ANSWER KEY . . . 195

Index of Model Rules . . . 203

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